‘Desperate’: Man Saws Off Foot to Avoid Work…And Continue Unemployment Benefits
- Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:30pm by
Liz Klimas
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School children can come up with the most elaborate schemes to get themselves out of class, even psyching themselves up so much that they really do end up being sick. But what of adults simply not wanting to go to work? One Austrian man must have thought being adult required even more drastic measures than faking a stomach ache. So, he cut off his own foot.
This is not a joke. An Austrian man really sawed off his own foot yesterday, according to Reuters, to avoid going back to work when a labor office official was set to check in on his health. Here are some more details:
Hours before an appointment on Monday for the labor office to check on his health, the 56-year-old man held his left leg against an electric saw in his home workshop and severed his foot just above the ankle, Austrian broadcaster ORF reported.
Bleeding profusely, the man from the province of Styria then threw the foot into an oven, hobbled to his garage and called an ambulance. An emergency operation was unable to reattach the foot, ORF said.
According to Metro, the local police chief Franz Fasching said the man was still conscious when help arrived on the scene, although he had lost a lot of blood. Fasching said the foot was too badly burned from being in the oven to be salvageable.
ORF called it a “desperate” act of a man wishing to continue receiving unemployment benefits. The man will not be able to claim disability benefits after this gruesome act, the Minister for Social Affairs Rudolf Hundstorfer said, but should he file for mental disabilities that situation could change.
[H/T Gizmodo]
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Comments (97)
soybomb315
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 9:00pmHe threw his foot in the oven to burn it up? why didnt he just run it through the table saw a couple more times?
Why would they try to re-attach a foot if the patient doesnt want them to? You aussies are a strange bunch
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 9:11pmNo, the “aussies” are NOT a strange bunch. The AUSTRIANS are.
Aussies are AUSTRALIANS. I guess you never saw “Dumb and Dumber”………
Report Post »kangaroo
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 9:25pmSKCREW I didn’t see dumb and dumber but it would discribe our priminister and her side kick, hey just the same as here who knew
Report Post »kangaroo
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 9:28pmOK requesting an edit button
SKREW
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 7:13amYeah, the same country that made the award winning movie…“Welcome to Whoop Whoop”.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:52pmi remember about 10 years ago that guy was pinned down by a big log and sawed off his leg to escape….times change i guess
Report Post »kangaroo
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 9:09pmI know guys that have been pinned down after a night out and had to chew their arm off
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 9:47pmCoyote ugly is where you wake up with her sleeping on your arm and she is so damn ugly, you chew off your arm as not to wake her…
DOUBLE Coyote ugly is where you chew off the other arm because you know she will be lookiing and searching for a one armed man…
Report Post »flyere45
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:51pmAre you kidding me? He now can’t collect unemployment, but may be eligible for a mental disability. Different department, same government.
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 9:13pmDon’t laugh…! After the unemplyment in THIS country started running out, there is a spike in claims for DISABILITY payments! This guy had to us US for an inspiration.
Report Post »blazingaway
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:43pmHe should have just cut his head off
Report Post »Skrewedretiree
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 9:19pmAll he had to do is pizz off a moo-slum and he could have had it done for free. Religion of Peace, remember…,..
Report Post »clingingtogodandguns
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:42pmDidn’t Long John Silver lose his leg Sounds like they have a pirate in waiting.Oh but i forgot this guy doesn’t want to work.Liberals are amazing with what they will do not to work.
Report Post »Maxim Crux
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:28pmMaybe he should have cut both feet off…he may have got twice as much.
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:23pmI didn’t know Encinom had relatives in Austria.
Report Post »drago
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:28pmLmao, Scuba13, thats one of the funniest things ive seen on here,touche’.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:55pmAHAHAHAHAHAHA. well done sir
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:08pmMust be encinomoron’s educated relative, encinomoron couldn’t figure out how to plug in the saw first and would then start calling the saw names like goodber head and such
Report Post »MEANS2RESIST
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:17pmSo looks like he won’t be jumping back into the workforce with both feet now will he? Or maybe he was trying gain a foothold on his free $$…..
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:34pmThis man already has…
Report Post »Wait for it…
One foot in the grave.
NancyBee
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 9:12pmHe could always be a telemarketer or customer service…………..he did an awful thing to himself…he has no brain
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:13pmI guess we’re gonna have to ban chop saws here after Nov. 2012.
Report Post »Ceefour
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:12pmOh those crazy Aussies…must be all that Fosters they drink………….
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:14pmAustrian.
Report Post »kangaroo
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:44pmha ha ha your so funny, we drink alot of beer including Fosters but it doesn’t make us cut our feet off.
We would rather surf with the sharks.
Wonder if that guy swore in Austrian
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:58pm@kangaroo
Report Post »real men swim with sharks – panzies use table saws
Maidoff101
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:01pmI think they should find Him a JOB that requires sitting down!
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:54pmSorry BADDOG you noticed it as I was posting.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:53pmAye mate got a sore tootsie eh?
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:53pmLol.
Report Post »KLOVE77
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:52pmY’all do know this happened over in Austria…right??
Report Post »1casawizard
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:04pm@KLOVE77. I don’t know what they pay over there to be umemployed but over here you you can get by I guess. He’s disabled now so that opens a lot of doors over here. He might be planning on moving.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 10:44pmThey make a really good cigerette lighter IMCO Triplex; same design as in the trenches of WWI
Report Post »JP4JOY
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:51pmThe man was from Styria, Austria. They don’t use the IRS to collect taxes. (Austria is the country between Germany and Italy in Europe)
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:48pmThat first free check was the gateway to more free checks.I would think that the checks he had been receiving were for mental disability.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:47pmUh, okay.
Report Post »psycodad36
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:45pmwell, at least he was willing to do SOMEthing for his free money,.let him fend for himself now!
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:44pmOOPs…I re read the article…Austrian. Now I am happy. No money out of my pocket…hehehe
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:43pmI‘ll give him an ’F’ for intelligence, but an ‘A+’ for sincerity.
Report Post »BeingThere
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:38pmI hope no one in Commiefornia reads this!!
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:49pmMost in California have already severed their common sense and dignity. There are a few that are trying to severe their reality, one toke at a time.
Report Post »psycodad36
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:48pmI hope that many copy-cats rise up , then we will know whom the mooches are
Report Post »SpeckledPup
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:37pmyeah, we knew a bitter REAL scary California gal who thought she was getting divorced and one day she chopped off a few fingers at work, and everyone there knew no way was it ”an accident” from where the set button was; she got a big cash settlement… and ..for all that money.. her wandering husband came back. oh yeah, greedy people are craaaaazy.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:35pmI think he’s eligible under Section 8.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:33pmThat is alike… selling a Body Part… for Money… in ObamaVille.
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